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The shorter guy with the dark hair who has been accused of being a Zune fanboy returned this week- and while he was out exploring the world he picked up a few juicy Microsoft stories to bring back and share with us. Voila:

Here's inside scoop on Max being on crutches... he was in New York to film the Natal segment on Jimmy Fallon and got his butt kicked by a virtual ball. He slipped on it and broke his pride--big time! True story.

Max, you got it all wrong. I took a poll of my friends and we all agree that we click right past the ads. If I search for Geico, I will not click the "highlighted" ad, I will click the first link which will be geico.com. Those highlighted ads almost seem
scamish.

Although...if Microsoft and Google both have "sponsored ads" it must be worthwhile, I just do not see how.

Granted it is quite possible I am wrong, but as long as I am, I shall assume most of your friends are tech savvy like you and would consider themselves as such. But riddle me this: would your mother know it's a "scamish" ad? Would your little sister?
How about most of your classmates that believe "MySpace" is the epitome of technology?

I have to admit i bypass the sponsored ads aswell as i fell they are scammy. I'm sure if someone conducted some research they would discover that most the people that click on these ads are the people that end up falling for scams.

However some of my clients use adwords successfully to increase purchases on their site so it must work. I can have a guess at how this works aswell because most computer savy people would never consider entering credit card details on some random site
they've just plucked from google but those that are gullible enough to click on these ad campaigns would be.

Soapbox failed because MS decided Soapbox has to be the anti-Youtube to have a shot. So Soapbox has a music filter a long long time ago. Uploading your own home video w/ Britney playing in the background and your video will be rejected.

The first few episodes, I was a bit sceptical about Ping. But it's growing up and getting better. I like the fact that Ping has a bit of an edge and that you guys are also not afraid to talk about the less successful side of Microsoft (Money, Soapbox). Also,
the incident caused by Laura's explicit word usage last week was highly exaggerated. That's exactly what gives Ping an edge, Laura's big yap.

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